Posted on 01/26/2018 3:58:08 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
40 year old "he said, she said" accusations should have not been permitted to have an impact on the election. Rational people should have stated that if there was anything to these claims, they should have been adjudicated in court 40 years ago.
How much are you donating to his legal defense fund?
I suspect Roy Moore's "staunch supporters" here on FreeRepublic are going to vanish when it comes to opening their wallets for him now.
Agreed, terrible candidate.
How much are you donating to his legal defense fund?
I haven't decided, but why is it any of your business? Are you trying to make this about me? How about we focus on your making accusations/denigrations about Moore?
I suspect Roy Moore's "staunch supporters" here on FreeRepublic are going to vanish when it comes to opening their wallets for him now.
And so now you must impugn the character of other people here on Free Republic? What respect I had for you goes down another notch.
Perhaps you should rethink your casting of aspersions? I don't think this is a winning gambit for you.
And here you are again repeating your same old lies and biases. He didn't loose [sic].
I can't even post an irrefutable point of fact here without having you claim that I am repeating "lies" and "biases."
Roy Moore lost the election. That's why Doug Jones is now representing Alabama in the U.S. Senate.
If you are typical of Roy Moore's supporters in Alabama, then I can absolutely understand why 600,000+ people who supported Donald Trump in 2016 stayed home in 2017.
It is as if two people were boxing in the ring, and the manager for one of the guys comes up and hits the other guy with a chair.
Claiming he "lost" is ignoring the fact that there was outside interference.
Roy Moore did not "fall", he was "pushed." Get it right and stop putting the blame on Moore. The Blame belongs on the Democrat dirty tricks team, and the Republican back stabbers.
Why was he a "terrible candidate"? Because the establishment types kept repeating that he was a terrible candidate, or do you have reasons of your own for believing that?
Amen, I could not have said it better!
I was not a big fan of Moore, but I am tired of people blaming him for losing when he was hit by unproven accusations that most establishment Republicans couldn't wait to repeat and amplify.
If they hadn't stabbed him in the back (Jeff Flake and Richard Shelby primarily) he would have won despite these unprovable accusations.
Moore has been, and is being unfairly maligned by people who cannot stop kicking a man when he's down.
I notice that the abuse allegation frenzy has died———one month of insanity,then “Poof!”,———gone.
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I've long noticed that all the "amazing coincidences" always seem to fall in the same direction. Towards more establishment control of power.
And what election was that? The Governor's election? I personally don't see it as a flaw that a man should keep fighting, even when the odds are against him.
I consider it admirable.
I agree, sad.
My reasoning is that he lost in a state that always votes for republicans.
He is too far off the edge even for them.
No wonder he finished FOURTH in the open GOP primary in 2010, and he's such a pariah in Alabama politics even to this day.
Before the accusations, he was leading by 20% or more. If he was leading by 20% or more, does this not in fact make him an excellent candidate?
He didn't lose because of being "off the edge" as you describe, he lost because the Democrats accused him of being a child molesting rapist, and the Republicans immediately spread and amplified that accusation while urging people to vote for someone else.
Therefore, he lost because of the attacks against him, not because of any inherent flaw he had as a candidate. Therefore he was not a "bad" candidate despite so many people constantly parroting the establishment claim that he was.
The establishment always claims real conservative reformers are "bad candidates". This is usually after they have back stabbed them in some serious and damaging manner, such as when Mitch McConnell and his cronies ran the racist attack ads against Chris McDaniel in Mississippi.
Establishment organizations are always damaging candidates and then declaring them "bad" candidates. Was Joe Miller a bad candidate in Alaska? Who won that? Wasn't it the establishment candidate that won it?
Washington DC doesn't want reform candidates, and they do everything they can to stop anyone from rocking their money spending boat.
Judging by what I have learned so far of Alabama politics, this is not an unreasonable claim.
and he's such a pariah in Alabama politics even to this day.
He became a pariah when he first stood up for the rule of law and defended Christianity. After that, all the members of the establishment judiciary wanted him out, and so did all the other "go along to get along" wimps in office in Alabama.
In his election to the Supreme Court of Alabama, the other members wrote a letter urging everyone to support the Democrat instead of Moore. (Moore won anyway) They didn't like him because he was an originalist instead of a "living constitution" advocate. They didn't like him because he didn't bend or compromise as modern politics is so often wont to do. They didn't like him because the "elites" of his state considered him embarrassing, and attracking unwanted attention from the New York Media who control the narrative in this nation.
His fifteen minutes of fame ended years ago. He should just go away and leave the voters of Alabama alone.
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